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- OBBTKN3
Sore throat, totally dizzy since midday...
I caught something, but I'm not in a hurry to wake up tomorrow.
Chicken soup with hard-boiled egg and paracetamol.
Tomorrow will be another day, good night locos!
- Did you try 500mgs of UpLift?canoe
- I got seriously jazzed on uplift the other day. The shakes were no fun.Continuity
- caught something similar over the holidayutopian
- And Im still sick AFutopian
- maquito11
I had great news from my direct Manager and Senior Director (design), (who happens to be a ery good friend of mine), Re: relocation from UY to SP (Barcelona).
Currently taking care of all the legal shit required to sign a floor contract, social security, DNI, and a shit ton of contracts and stuff.
Really excited to see how does this all turn out.
Not able to count sober days yet, but this message is all I was waiting for :)
Se you in Barcelona next year, folks!!
Stalk Villarroel 205
- Bienvenido a Catalunya ;)
Haznos una visita a los vascos...OBBTKN - Nice, maqui, congrats! I'm planning a weekend getaway to BCN probably in Feb, I'll let you know!Continuity
- I want a European life for a few decades. Afraid to leave the states for the job market. Got young kids to feed********
- QBN Barcelona drinks soon?maikel
- welcome to the northern hemisphereneverscared
- See you in BCNSimonFFM
- Amazing news, Spain is a great place to live.Chimp
- Congrats. Where in BCN? Poblenou?Longcopylover
- I loved living in Barcelona. Great DJs come through there. You can eat Peruvian food whenever you want. Naturally trip out on Gaudi and meet Africans.canoe
- And stick your middle finger in the face of as many Catalonians as you want.canoe
- Bienvenido a Catalunya ;)
- OBBTKN3
What a night of horror, but I still "breathe."
A shower, work a little, some shopping and I'm going to have some wine with friends.
Whatever I caught, I won't go down without a fight, lol.
- jagara12
QBN is the closest i get to daily interaction with a social medium. A tiny internet village - my perfect level of involvement.
- Ianbolton0
How do I get access to the 'secret' QBN threads. Do i have to pay? haha
- how much do you pay/play?
https://www.qbn.com/…
there's links to the others there.uan - uan the party smashersted
- jeez louise, way to let hoi polloi into teh speshul thredz. goddah.hans_glib
- haha, Who you calling hoi polloi? I'm a very classy individual. ;-)Ianbolton
- @uan "The First Rule of Fight Club"utopian
- it is a diversion... let the pollii think they found the secret secret secret threads.uan
- You just need to get a QBNpro account.maikel
- https://www.qbnpro.c…dbloc
- how much do you pay/play?
- bainbridge1
I think I have carpal tunnel. Help??
- Go to the doctor without wasting time, if necessary, I know many people who have had surgery and all have been fine.OBBTKN
- switch to vertical mousepablo28
- ^ ditching a standard mouse for Wacom tablet pen helped me but see a doc firstkoma_
- I had steroids injected direct into the area to avoid surgery. Worked a treat.sausages
- Don't click any further, seek medical helpgrafician
- Change mouse alsografician
- Don’t listen to any of this. Instead, go to a doctor and look into a different mouse.monospaced
- Exactly what I said monografician
- I have found that using a magic pad instead of a mouse helps quite a bitmaikel
- Steroid shot got rid of it for me.dbloc
- also using a magic pad now too. So much better.dbloc
- no way!? weird, it’s also exactly what the first commenters saidmonospaced
- This is by far the worst attempt I’ve ever heard at asking for an HJ********
- Back at an agency in San Francisco they sent a bunch of us to carpal tunnel training and therapy. a lot of good tips hereYakuZoku
- vertical mouse ftwmicrokorg
- def see a doctor.
def switch to a wacom tablet.exador1 - Switch to a different doctor.
Go see a mouse.duckseason - I also got rid of it after switching to wacom pen from a mouse.a_aachen
- "Don't click any further, seek medical help" lolcanoe
- Nairn12
Next year some of us cunts will have been here on this godforsaken wasteground for a quarter of a fucking century.
- *hold arm aloft and spills a bottle of shite beer for all that have left us in that timeNairn
- What have you learned?grafician
- 1) Romania is in the Balkans 2) 5g activates the bill gates mind control chips in the covid vaccine 3) jazx’s girlfriend is hot and can be yours for 3 credits_niko
- 4) Google maps shows porn if your name is Doogan 5) some call it Swiss design it stays. 6) tigers fight like no one._niko
- i learned that .. um.. not to crush the blacks?autoflavour
- 2004 for mesab
- There's occasional meltdownsYakuZoku
- Foutythumb_screws
- 22 years for me in ’25.
Learned plenty but mostly waiting around for scarabin’s memoirs or Nairn’s first novelMrT - waiting for the next melt down.pango
- 13,148,730 minneverscared
- Since Newstoday.microkorg
- tp put things in a more important perspective ...hotdoddy´s IQ is lower than the years hes been around here...neverscared
- toneverscared
- The friends we made along the way.palimpsest
- I wasn’t here before you.monospaced
- awwwww... i love you guys too :)exador1
- can i put this on my CV?refunktion
- That Kanye is one of us.garbage
- I don't know when I first joined but it was shortly after Newstoday became QBN. At a guess I'd say 22 years, and probably 22 usernames.Horp
- 19 years with this username and I think another 2 before that lurking with another.BuddhaHat
- 20 yearsfisheye
- since '01canoe
- Horp1
Pfffft
Bought a new (not brand new) car. Picked it up this weekend. It was immaulate.
Decided to go for a cheeky run out in it this evening despite the ice. So excited, I rolled off the drive despite zero visibility due to iced up windows. A moment of insanity.
Scuffed an immaculate rim on a kerbstone just at the end of the driveway. Instant regret.
It's only small, but equally it's absolutely massive.
I now have to keep going to look at it with my torch, as though looking at it might heal it. It doesn't but after 20 minutes of thinking about it becomes an absolutely destroyed wheel, and looking at it is necessary to remember that actually it's not so bad.
Except it wasn' there at all prior to me driving my car with absolutely no view outside. Why? Why did I do that?
I find this age and this stage of life is one where this kind of thing is constantly anticipated. Sensible steps, precautionary measures are taken. It's one of the key signs of aging I think that wisdom manifests as slowness and caution; avoiding silly mistakes made in the past.
Then every once in a while carefree youthful carelessness revives and in the most stupid and pointless ways, a price is paid for youthful exuberance.
I'm off outside with my torch again now, to put this disaster back into perspective for the tenth time tonight.
- It's a Jaguar 00 if anyone's interested.Horp
- No-one's interested. I KERBED MY WHEEL YOU HEARTLESS PIGS. CRY FOR ME.Horp
- Fuck it. Gave myself an upvote.Horp
- "Decided to go for a cheeky run out in it this evening despite the ice." - this is where you went wrong. Commiserations on your rim!BuddhaHat
- A Jaguar? Ha! Good timeline ;)OBBTKN
- It's not the Jaguar 00. It's a rather boring BMW family hauler.Horp
- Horp21
Nairn's blog about a quarter of a century of QBN has given me a touch of the melancholy.
We're (broadly, some of us) the only generation that knew and operated in a world before the www, before groups, before forums, before social media, before digital on demand. We've experienced the entire arc from zero to the peak and now down the other side.
The amount of change in that time is phenomenal. I started off using whatever Yahoo Groups was before it became Yahoo Groups. I'd guess that was 1997.
Now I think even the big powerful social media brands/platforms are slowly losing cultural relevance. They're still huge, still being used by very large numbers of people... but what they can do is limited by what they are and we all get tired of the media eventually. They aren't inherently exciting anymore. We know what we're going to get.
There was a time when it was all so fascinating that I was in danger of losing purchase on real world obligations due to a constant burning desire to be exploring the vast possibility of online living and the new experiment in communication and discovery. All via dial-up for a very long time, and that added to the sense of adventure. The sound of jacking in to the alterverse and the fact it took time to get there. Transportative, if such a word exists.
Now I genuinely struggle to find anything to hold my interest online. The thousands of weird, kooky, idiosyncratic websites, platforms, gatherings, experiments got funnelled into global brand platforms with nothing thrilling to offer. There is no internet anymore.
I pick my phone up, flick on to Reddit, flick over to QBN daily, and flick onto a few news platforms, and that's it. I'm done.
Even with QBN it now feels like it could be winding down. No fresh intake, just a dwindling circle of stalwarts who often don't even seem to enjoy each other's company.
And me watching silently through a window, but with less enthusiasm with each passing day.
ENTERTAIN ME, OR LOSE MY PATRONAGE FOREVER.
- You have to wonder who will post the final post here before it's abandoned to an indifferent silence or it's taken offline by a disinterested caretaker.Horp
- It wont be me. I never post here anymore.Horp
- It's me, isn't it.Horp
- i feel this tho.. for real, there was a moment when the internet was full of wonder and pushing the envelope. now its just cookie cutter content and formautoflavour
- there must be something somewhere interesting happeningautoflavour
- Good post. I feel this.nocomply
- ↑ Agreed.BuddhaHat
- '97 i was in 7th grade pirate'ing photoshop 4.0 from my computer science teacher to make quake skins :DArchitectofFate
- And I agree, adventure is a word taught, but seldom experienced in 2025ArchitectofFate
- I share each of your words.OBBTKN
- i doubt it ... i would rather say theres a lot more idiosyncratic art the pushes the envelope online now... the next generation is not a let down to me...neverscared
- i would rather say aesthetics are flying quite well and the older generation might have problems to keep up...neverscared
- Horp. I feel this. But, come over to Discord, we've got something for you.Continuity
- when the wireless age kicked in it was fantastic compared to before...neverscared
- This is the last forum I follow and your post made me abit sad..its so truetony77
- It’s settled then, we make a pact like the flying hellfish from the Simpsons. Last man standing gets the lol cube._niko
- your post is sad but true - but I'm hooked on QBN!stoplying
- feed or leave.sted
- I think we're all in the same boat (as usual). I've decided that this is my mystical era. I've embraced the 'old man' status myself. Ride the wave. Let go.misterhow
- "I genuinely struggle to find anything to hold my interest online" < the entire post is about why qbn isn't that place anymore.sted
- and i hope you might be able to have conversations, and perhaps even arguments, with people you don't particularly like.sted
- QBN has special dogmatic intensity that has allowed it to last. Good or bad most of the conversations have effort put into them. Laziness is not tolerated.slappy
- Your post is an example of why I still come here, probably the best thing I will read today, thanks.slappy
- MAKE QBN GREAT AGAINautoflavour
- fucking oath. or as us aussies say. 'ken oath.ephix
- OBBTKN3
Regarding my addiction to citrus fruits (especially tangerines) during the winter, I just discovered that you can overdose on vitamin C!
- i think you just pee out the extra vit c your body doesn't needhans_glib
- https://www.npr.org/…palimpsest
- I'm eating tangerines because I love them, not because I'm looking for super vitamins. That, and because it's better than smoking for a 50-year-old like me ;)OBBTKN
- Yes, that's what addiction looks like.palimpsest
- LOL @paliOBBTKN
- I am Team Clementinesgrafician
- winter is my favourite fruit time. I plow through bags of mandarins and at least one pomegranate dailyGnash
- mmm, the color of pomegranatesGnash
- Yes!OBBTKN
- Is it like anti-scurvy? Do you grow extra teeth?skinny_puppy
- I had to look it up on Google... I had no idea what scurvy was until now. I eat citrus because I love them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯OBBTKN
- Want to have a laugh?
I enrolled my eldest in Spanish classes at the Instituto Cervantes years back.palimpsest - They were studing the Magellan expedition and he came back with homework on "Escorbuto".palimpsest
- Since his explanation wasn't clear I thought Escorbuto was either a ship or an island. I had trouble finding it on a map.palimpsest
- There is a belief that the Basques made long sea voyages with their cellars full of cider to avoid the "Escorbuto" (scurvy)...OBBTKN
- It wasn't true, because cider doesn't have vitamin C. But surely the long month-long trip was more pleasant, LOLOBBTKN
- Imagine sailing across the Atlantic with the means of the 16th century... I would also take cider.OBBTKN
- The Basque approach: I might have scurvy but I don't care!palimpsest
- bainbridge1
I'm bored at work and realizing I'm really phoning it in sometimes.
- Phoning it in for good pay is the natural path that capitalism wants of us. Be free my man. Laziest possible.********
- Phoning it in for good pay is the natural path that capitalism wants of us. Be free my man. Laziest possible.
- canoe10
Good morning my loves, come out and PAH LAY EEEE EE
- Snowpiercer.palimpsest
- Yipikayay!OBBTKN
- This is how you do winter!grafician
- You appear to have plenty of space to build up a kicker to fire up your 1974 Raider Double Eagle and easily send'er backflip style over that there road gapprophetone
- that is some proper snowsted
- sweetmilfhunter
- ha - prophet
with a cigar, no helmetcanoe - i mean of course, with a can of Wildcatprophetone
- BonSeff0
Ding, fries are done...
I can't unlearn it this time of year
- milfhunter29
Will become a dad in 3 days. Wish me luck.
- congrats!dopepope
- Woot!YakuZoku
- The hunter becomes the prey.palimpsest
- you better get some sleep now. good luck!uan
- Username soon to check out********
- how many kids does she have?canoe
- 3 days? Scheduled birth? May everything go well, take good care of the mother and sleep when she doesn't.OBBTKN
- Username is a fraud :)utopian
- @OBBTKN DNA paternity testing is 3 days.sted
- just jokin :) congrats! @utopiansted
- where the fun isn'tcherub
- fuuuck I read I will become dead in 3 days and was a) worried for you and b) concerned at the cuntiness of qbners in the notes. But I see you said dad. RIP ;)_niko
- LOL _niko:
"congrats!"
"Woot!"palimpsest - Congrats. Parenthood is a crazy and incredibly rewarding adventure. Nothing else you do in life will come close to the legacy you leave via your kid(s).mg33
- Found that milf in the end.cruddlebub
- Plot twist: dead dadcherub
- mg has all the marketing brochuressted
- Sleep when you get the chance. Don't sit f*cking around doomscrolling. Sleep!microkorg
- Good luck? It's your first?dmay
- Sorry, early morning here, I meant, "Good luck!" with an exclamation point...dmay
- "You were the chosen one! Bring balance to the Force, not leave us all in darkness!"utopian
- Thanksss yall!! And yes this will be the first one! excited and scared at the same time :))milfhunter
- Welcome to child ownership @milfhunter!!!ideaist
- being a dad is literally the best thing ever. you're gonna love it.exador1
- Yeah, prepare for everyday adventure ;)
Good luck!OBBTKN - Good stuff! Buckle up, baby!stoplying
- flol @ "child ownership". Good luck man.garbage
- lol @ stedduckseason
- How is it going?skinny_puppy
- you still hunting milfs? or now that your a dad you restraining yourself?autoflavour
- I'm home after 3 days in the hospital! We had to go for a C section.milfhunter
- Our Daughter Noor is healthy and happy so is the mother.milfhunter
- Both exhausted and with a baby to take care for, will be an interesting week..milfhunter
- Congrats man, nice name.garbage
- canoe0
The man passive aggressively said, "I wish I had the time to loop :29-:31 and post somewhere on the QBNs"
- canoe1
Some of you probably have a friend like mine...
a real starving artist
shit constantly hitting the fan
won't hold a normal paying job
gets hit by cars on his bikeHe likes to work on very large pieces, and now wants to put them on shirts.
Question. What is the easiest way for him to do this? Take a photo with super high resolution • Bring it into photoshop for retouching? Crop and output.
There has to be a more professional way than using an iPhone, or? Can't he pay someone to do this for him in a professional manner?
- Asking for a friendmonNom
- Easiest and cheapest way would be iphone. Better would be good lighting & camera with a lens that doesn't distort (e.g like too wide an angle).microkorg
- There are places that will scan huge paintings for you but I imagine they are not cheap and would likely cost more than you'd ever make selling tshirts.microkorg
- When it comes to tshirts, print on demand places like Threadless are the thing to use to start off with. Just upload your designs.microkorg
- You don't need to invest $ in inventory.microkorg
- Take multiple shots, bring into PS and use Photomergei_monk
- +1 photomerge for best possible resolution. But really, for a T-shirt you aren’t going to be constrained by resolution. iPhone will be fine.monNom
- I think the photo merge is the best option because I can't imagine a full frame will not distort. I remember people would scan their work in segments back when.canoe
- He has a shopify store now MicroKorg, you analog lover boy
He needs to find his marketplace niche - file under Afro Galacticcanoe - *gets hit by cars on his bike
this is a very sharp pointer of that demographicBeeswax - There are a ton of online guides on this but outside DLSR on a slightly overcast day and adjust in photoshop has given me the best results, for no equipment.webazoot
- Gardener1
If you are in Scotland tomorrow you should come as I'm having a big clear-out of vinyl, all cheap! see you there?!
- Used to spend all my hard earned at record fairs at the caird hall.
I've played on the stage there many many moons ago.microkorg - well come and give me some of your money today! there's seven inches in it for you, erm lolGardener
- Look at the American here "If you're in Scotland, just pop along to Dundee..!" :)Nairn
- Used to spend all my hard earned at record fairs at the caird hall.
- HAL90011
We can't focus anymore
- i barely achieved to focus on this video about why we cant focus ¯\_(ツ)_/¯HAL9001
- Do we all have the same youtube feed now?i_monk
- Luckily, we don't.palimpsest
- 5G scramble-egg'd our brainnsssfuturefood
- «At some point, you gotta decide for yourself who you're going to be. Can't let nobody make that decision for you»palimpsest
- stay off social media, problem solvedYakuZoku
- Beeswax10
This was also one of my decisions to move to Hawaii,
to be away from the information world.I just learned about Assad from my 80yo mother on the phone. Also this Luigi guy, here.
I'm really not following anything deliberately except occasional Gaza news from my instagram feed.I used to trade stocks and that required me to follow news like "Iranian drone bombed an oil tanker in Hurmuz" so that I'd hold on to an energy stock. Not doing that anymore either.
My life is more focused. On myself, on my life here and what I'm after. I'm also less opinionated, still posting about Gaza every now and then because that is a more direct threat to our shared human body, but I want to observe and really want to find new ways to express my reactions.
Like with art or doing more regenerative things to slightly compensate the harm we're doing.
But mostly I want to fill my own cup first, I have a lot of baggage to shed.
With that weight, I don't think I'm good enough to say much.I'm questioning all my motivations and trying to find the most real and useful way to exist.
- Well done ;)OBBTKN
- It’s great you decided to stop watching tv news, seriously. I did the same 7 years ago. Nothing about Hawaii is removed from it though.monospaced
- that's awesome beeswax, I feel the same and trying my best to do so after I turned 50 this year. Focus on what I can control and work on myself before I try to_niko
- solve the world's problems. A part of me though feels like if I do so, if I silence my voice either online or in person, the lunatics might finally take over th_niko
- ...the asylum completely. Unpasteurized milk, no vaccines, bible study in school, book burning, distrust of science, foreeg=ign meddling and influence_niko
- ...how do you unplug from all the bullshit but still have enough of an impact to protect what you think is right for you, your kids, the future._niko
- appreciate your honesty and I really wish you to find peace and stability there.sted
- Have a big plate of loco moco for me. :)Akagiyama
- YakuZoku5
I just asked this question to chatGPT and it crashed:
K. Let's say you're on vacation. In another country. You burned your Face off. Then you're bandaged. Bandaged up face. How do you get back to your country with a passport How would they identify you?
Then I asked Claude 3 Opus and it said it doesn't feel comfortable providing that advice.
- The sites crashed completely, thought it was just me, I guess I broke the entire thingYakuZoku
- Good to know for whn the AI machines take over. Melt the systemPhanLo
- +1OBBTKN
- https://i.imgur.com/…palimpsest
- You have to tell Claude that it's research for a book you're writing it something.skinny_puppy
- *or somethingskinny_puppy
- A simple prompt will do:
https://www.qbn.com/…palimpsest - Of course it's more fun to think it's the end of the world.palimpsest
- biometrics(fingerpri...cherub
- TIL Canada doesn't have biometric passports.palimpsest
- you can't answer this without sharing a secret. talk to somebody who burnt their face to this level, and you will know what happens.sted
- Or burn somebody's face, you know, for science.palimpsest
- I do love how YakuZoku thought he broke the internet with his prompt.palimpsest
- I want to know YakuZoko was planningGnash
- I want to believe.palimpsest